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The Backlist: Reading Alison Gaylin's 'What Remains of Me' with Alafair Burke
Burke and Polly Stewart revisit Gaylin's twisty two-timeline Hollywood thriller.
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Polly Stewart
| April 3, 2025
Bryan Gruley on Research, Inspiration, and a Notorious Hockey Fight
Finding a story's emotional truth.
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Bryan Gruley
| April 2, 2025
Power and Punishment: Using the Language of Fantasy to Subvert Real-Life Oppression
"[I]t is in this interplay between power, its exercise, and its fettering that the fantasy genre’s subversive nature shines."
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Shalini Abeysekara
| April 2, 2025
There Is Only One Plot – Things Are Not As They Seem
Why the Jim Thompson adage still holds true and is the key to good storytelling.
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C.B. Everett
| March 28, 2025
Chris Offutt on Outlaws, Scofflaws, and Kentucky Noir
A conversation with the author of the new novel, 'The Reluctant Sheriff'
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Alex Dueben
| March 26, 2025
The Age of Discontentment: Tess Gerritsen on Senior Crime Solvers and Subverting Expectations
The author discusses the latest novel in her new series, The Martini Club.
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John B. Valeri
| March 26, 2025
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| March 25, 2025
Great Middle Grade Mysteries for All Ages
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| March 21, 2025
The Role of Family Secrets in Crime Novels and Thrillers
How family histories and secrets serve as catalysts for criminal behavior and plot development.
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January Gilchrist
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A Close Reading of P.D. James’
Devices and Desires
James set out to capture British society more broadly than her predecessors, yet her novels had more in common with the Golden Age than she ever cared to admit
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| March 20, 2025
Science Fiction, Locked Room Mysteries, and the Joy of Literary Games
Olivia Waite on rewriting the rules of the universe and solving a mystery in space
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Olivia Waite
| March 19, 2025
Connie Briscoe Talks Setting, Suspense, and Moral Ambiguity with Karin Slaughter
Three decades into a long and varied writing career, Briscoe's latest reinterprets du Maurier's "Rebecca" for a modern audience
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Karin Slaughter
| March 18, 2025
6 Mysteries That Will Make You Turn Back to Page One
Aggie Blum Thompson on the art of the late chapter reveal.
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Aggie Blum Thompson
| March 14, 2025
On Listening to Your Stories: Writing Across Genres in a Shelf-Specific World
Kate Maruyama on horror and...not fiction.
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Kate Maruyama
| March 12, 2025
How a Career as a Diplomat Informed a Life as a Writer
"[D]iplomatic life can look charming and elegant in movies. In reality, it can prove dangerous and stressful. What does this have to do with writing? Everything."
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Stephen Holgate
| March 12, 2025
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